Science of societal safety : living at times of risks and disasters

This open access book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, countermeasures, and recovery from disasters or accidents including treatment and care of the victims. Safety and security problems in our society involve not only engineering but also social, legal, economic, cultural, and psychological issues. The enhancement needed for societal safety includes comprehensive activities of all aspects from precaution to recovery, not only of people but also of governments. In this context, the authors, members of the Faculty of Societal Safety Science, Kansai University, conducted many discussions and concluded that the major strategy is consistent independently of the type and magnitude of disaster or accident, being also the principle of the foundation of our faculty. The topics treated in this book are rather widely distributed but are well organized sequentially to provide a clear understanding of the principles of societal safety. In the first part the fundamental concepts of safety are discussed. The second part deals with risks in the societal and natural environment. Then follows, in the third part, a description of the quantitative estimation of risk and its assessment and management. The fourth part is devoted to disaster prevention, mitigation, and recovery systems. The final, fifth part presents a future perspective of societal safety science. Thorough reading of this introductory volume of societal safety science provides a clear image of the issues. This is largely because the Japanese have suffered often from natural disasters and not only have gained much valuable information about disasters but also have accumulated a store of experience. We are still in the process of reconstruction from the Great East Japan earthquake and the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident. This book is especially valuable therefore in studying the safety and security of people and their societies.-- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 What Do Societal Safety Sciences Aim at? (Seiji Abe, Mamoru Ozawa, Hideyuki Shiroshita)....Pages 3-13 Advancement in Science and Technology and Human Societies (Hiroshi Nishimura, Emiko Kanoshima, Kazuhiro Kono)....Pages 15-26 Contemporary Societies and Risk (Shoji Tsuchida, Seiji Kondo, Kenji Koshiyama)....Pages 27-35 Modern Societies and Establishment of Scholarship (Toshihiro Kawaguchi, Tadahiro Motoyoshi)....Pages 37-46 Front Matter ....Pages 47-47 Human, Nature, and Artificial Products (Mamoru Ozawa)....Pages 49-55 Natural Disasters (Koji Ichii, Yoshinari Hayashi, Tomofumi Koyama, Tomoyuki Takahashi)....Pages 57-71 Social Disasters and Damages (Takahiro Nakamura, Emiko Kanoshima, Tomofumi Koyama, Hiroshi Nishimura, Mamoru Ozawa)....Pages 73-86 Environmental Risks (Toshio Takatorige, Yukio Hirose, Shingo Nagamatsu)....Pages 87-97 War, Crimes, and Terrorism (Shingo Nagamatsu)....Pages 99-109 Front Matter ....Pages 111-111 Methods in Risk Analysis (Eiki Yamakawa, Toshihiro Kawaguchi)....Pages 113-120 Risk Management (Yoshinari Hayashi, Katsuyuki Kamei)....Pages 121-128 Risk Communication and Disaster Information (Seiji Kondo, Yukio Hirose, Hideyuki Shiroshita)....Pages 129-140 Crisis Management (Katsuyuki Kamei)....Pages 141-150 Front Matter ....Pages 151-151 Public Systems for Disaster Management (Kazuhiko Takano, Koji Ichii, Shozo Nagata, Eiichi Yamasaki)....Pages 153-167 Government Systems for Disaster Management (Tomofumi Koyama, Seiji Abe, Seiji Kondo, Yoshihiro Okumura, Hideyuki Shiroshita, Toshio Takatorige)....Pages 169-184 Systems for Disaster Management in the Private Sector (Mashiho Suga, Kinzo Kuwana, Shingo Nagamatsu, Takahiro Nakamura, Kazuhiko Takano)....Pages 185-196 Supporting Disaster Victims (Tadahiro Motoyoshi)....Pages 197-205 Front Matter ....Pages 207-207 Governance and Forming Agreement for Societal Safety (Yukio Hirose)....Pages 209-215 For Deepening of Societal Safety Sciences (Yoshiaki Kawata)....Pages 217-224 Back Matter ....Pages 225-227 This open access book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, countermeasures, and recovery from disasters or accidents including treatment and care of the victims. Safety and security problems in our society involve not only engineering but also social, legal, economic, cultural, and psychological issues. https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32571